YEah! The sun is a living organism too! ! !
Ok, the same tests have been carried out when mixing certain chemicals with quicksilver. (forget the chemicals) The quicksilver forms individual spheres, the sphere split apart, they also join, and based on one spheres vibration they cause other spheres to vibrate, split, or shrink. The spheres that lose their input energy chemicals then stop vibrating and reform into a solid quicksilver mass once again.
As for the sun comment; his terms of rationalising his theory can be put to this use as well. The sun is undergoing a fission-fusion process induced by gasses interracting to form atoms and then divide atoms, and cause atoms nearby those atoms to heat, vibrate, slpit and fuse as well. THe sun us constantly enlarging and shrinking as the inner layers of gas interract with the outer layers of gas to produce the effects of atom fusion, fission (growing and shrinking) and nearby atom vibration and reaction.
It's a neato experiment they did in that article, as it's got to be a trip to watch happen, just as it is to watch quicksilver react with chemicals, though it doesn't mean plasma-gaseous beings (like our Sun) are living. If that were the case, one could classify a nuclear reactor's reaction's as a living group of cells bent on destroying nearby matter in an effort to gobble them up as fuel.
...one could go so far as to say that fire is a living thing based on this theory... but I am going to cut it short. :-)
Adios!
//still very interesting though.